… an Army that believes that God’s best work in us is in the future not the past.
It’s great to look back and enjoy the warm memories of that which has gone before. Many people will look to their childhood for please reminiscences, other to their early days of married life, still others to a great experience of the last few days. It all involves looking back
It is so easy to look at the past through a rose tinted rear view mirror!
That is not to say they weren’t great times and that the memory of them gives us hope and anticipation for the future. However, in Kingdom terms, the best is always yet to come both in our worship and service and our eternal hope.
We may look to the past in celebration of what God has done, and we may take it as the preliminary sketch of all that he is to do in the future – not that he will repeat the same thing over and over but that our God, who moves seamlessly through time will show us His dramatic presence in the future as he has in the past.
Last weekend saw a group of 45 Salvationists attending the latest discussion in the Scotland Mission Strategy process – a process that very clearly not only looks ahead but places that future in the hands of Him who is timeless. What an exciting prospect it is to think, dream and plan for what God is going to do in and through us.
If we do not believe that our best days are ahead, what are we saying about our God? That he peaked too early? That He made a mistake? Not one bit of it! As I look at the volumes of Salvation Army history formally lined up on the bookshelf I heartily believe that these will serve as a ‘foreword’ to the work that God is yet to do through us.
Our history tells that we do not rest on our laurels, our faith tells us to ‘press on towards the prize’ (Philippians 3:14). Our best days, because they are His days, are yet to be.
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